COVID Stimulus Money Lined the Pockets of Scammers and Fueled Inflation
It’s a given at this point that much pandemic-related fiscal stimulus was lost to fraud. The government flooded the world with money, we were told, to offset the disruption of economies paralyzed by people minimizing social contact and (especially) by mandated closures. Sure, that was a crude “solution” to an avoidable problem. But government officials […]